April 3, 2007 12:25
As far as I understood it only the publically available ENC charts are those in S-57 format. The encrypted version is the S-63 format used for mainly European and NON USA charts.
All other formats (Navionics, Blue Chart, SeaMax etc.) are all based on the offically published ENC data. That is they do use the same data, but do add their own data too, which is only available with their proprietary applications.
That's why these charts (Navionics etc) can't be read by MacENC, because it's a proprietary format.
Till now MacENC is the only application which does read the S63 charts!
All other formats (Navionics, Blue Chart, SeaMax etc.) are all based on the offically published ENC data. That is they do use the same data, but do add their own data too, which is only available with their proprietary applications.
That's why these charts (Navionics etc) can't be read by MacENC, because it's a proprietary format.
Till now MacENC is the only application which does read the S63 charts!